I’ll be doing a 1-hour talk entitled: It doesn’t have to feel like the Spanish Inquisition – Surviving the modern selection interview at the Career Zoo in Dublin. Spaces will be limited, so get there early to avoid disappointment. See you there! PS: I’ll also be hosting a seminar on how to access opportunities in [...]
I have noticed a problem when interviewing entry-level candidates in the recent past. These are well-educated, beautifully-presented candidates, with good CVs; but they have a problem. The problem is they sound like morons. Why? Because they pepper their speech with qualifiers and irritators and because they don’t seem to be capable of uttering simple, emphatic, [...]
[I simply refuse to write or say the word "caveperson" - it's a stupid word. If that offends you, you might want to stop reading now.] We are all cavemen. Oh all right – and women. Semantics aside, the point is that we are cavemen who wear a slightly better class of animal skins than [...]
“You know the Greeks didn’t write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?’” (Jeremy Piven, in the film Serendipity) What a great question. I don’t care if it’s true or not – it should be. On another note: “All publicity is good publicity, except an obituary notice”(Brendan Behan)
Someone needs to take me aside and explain Facebook to me. I meet enthusiastic users of Facebook all the time who wax lyrical in their description of how connected they feel to their extended circles of online friends but … nope, don’t get it. Now Skype I get. On a Skype call I can hear [...]
On the one hand, it’s been a predictable night, with the pollsters pretty much on the money, but it was still an exciting night for all that. I took most of my coverage from the BBC with a very reasoned David Frum and a very cranky John Bolton, amongst others, being moderated by the ever-excellent [...]
When I give talks about career management, I intermittently stick up slides of the epitaphs of luminaries from the past. The quote above comes from the front page obituary in Washington Evening Star on the 25th of January 1965: “Churchill is dead, gone from the world he saved. And the world he saved, distracted still [...]
Job fairs = lots of tyre-kickers. True or false? With Generation Y and beyond now living out significant parts of their lives online, job fairs migrating online are a natural progression in the HR and Recruiter’s toolkit. You have to be where your target market are and your presence in that environment has to be [...]
In Tom Peters’ 2003 book Re-Imagine, he relates the tale of the Chief of Cardiology at the University of Lund in Norway going head-to-head against a piece of software trying to spot myocardial infarctions [heart attacks to you and me]. The Chief of Cardiology and his team did very well, but the computer kicked their [...]
A propos of fathers who have passed on (and thanks to everyone who mailed me following yesterday’s post), I saw an episode of Grey’s Anatomy [just channel-hopping I assure you] a little while back that had a moment which gave me pause for thought. The Dead Dad’s Club. Who would want to be a member [...]
